Appal a chi an Tribes

Indians who occupied the S. Atlantic States. (1) The Cherokees were noted for their advanced civilization; they kept slaves to work their farms. One of their number (Sequojah) invented an alphabet for the language after he had caught the idea from hearing about the white man's books. In 1838 they sold their land and were removed to a reservation in n. e. Indian Territory, originally containing 4,000,000 acres. Their government is a democracy. (2) Creeks or Muskogees and Semi noles, etc., who built mounds, made artistic pottery, and had a patriarchal form of government. In 1836, 28,000 Creeks, and, in 1842, 2,400 Semi noles, were removed to the Territory. (3) Choctaws, the most advanced of this group of Indians. 20,000 are in Indian Territory now; they have schools and churches. The Chick a saws, 6,000 strong, and smaller tribes, are also included in this group.